Senior System Architect

The Amazon Devices team designs high-profile consumer electronics, including the best-selling Amazon Echo, FireTV, Fire Tablets, Kindle, and Astro family of products. We are looking for a motivated individual contributor with a solid hardware or silicon background, great communication skills, and the passion to collaborate with a cross-functional team to drive system architecture across Amazon devices.

Key job responsibilities include:

• Defining the system architecture for consumer products such as Echo, FireTV and a range of new concepts not yet announced.
• Serving as the lead technical point of contact that the product management and business teams rely on to interpret and clarify the product concept's desired user experience and requirements.
• Defining system architecture that can meet product requirements and working closely with the business team to understand and clarify requirements and user experience tradeoffs.
• Driving key design decisions such as edge-cloud compute partition, device SoC selection, compute architecture (CPU, DSP, GPU and ML accelerators), and other system component selections (chipsets, memory, storage).
• Documenting the decisions in a system architecture specification document that will provide relevant design guidance for the engineering team.
• Tracking market trends, interfacing directly with silicon and IP vendors, and defining roadmaps for the whole organization on the next generation compute IP and silicon platforms.
• Diving deep into silicon design, defining specs for the next-gen silicon platforms and working with our silicon suppliers to implement them.
• Staying engaged as the system technical lead throughout the product development lifecycle, from initial concept to production.
• Collaborating closely with a multi-disciplinary product team including Program Management, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, ML Science, Product Design, Industrial Design, Reliability, and Operations.

A day in the life includes:

• Gathering business and functional product requirements from external/internal customers, and translating these requirements into technical specifications and architectures that are robust, scalable and supportable.
• Performing architecture feasibility analysis, including profiling, benchmarking and prototyping new features on available silicon platforms.
• Presenting architecture tradeoffs and recommendations to senior management (VP level).
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop and document architecture specifications that serve as a reference for development teams.
• Providing design and validation reviews for other engineers, including feedback on architecture and design issues, as well as integration, performance and scalability.
• Driving technology roadmaps in areas of expertise to foster innovation and meet the needs of the long-term product roadmap.
• Working closely with silicon and component suppliers and influencing their roadmaps to meet Amazon Lab126 needs.

The system architecture team is responsible for architecting Amazon Lab126 products including Echo, Fire Tablets, FireTV, Kindle eReaders, Hearables, Wearables and IoT. The team also owns the chipset and IP technology roadmap and drives strategies that enable reuse and scale across Amazon devices. The team is comprised of architects with varied hardware and software backgrounds. We are always on the lookout for capable architects who can raise the bar and add technical expertise and depth to drive architectures for next-gen devices and emerging concepts.

Come be a part of the system architecture team in Lab126 Hardware Architecture and technology! Employees who have experience with consumer electronics devices and have been EEs, embedded software engineers, systems engineers, etc. and would like to contribute at the architecture level to the exciting Lab126 roadmap are encouraged to apply.